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Monday, Feb 20, 2006

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`17 mistakes in RGUHS answer key'

Staff Reporter

There are only four or five mistakes and these will be rectified soon, says Registrar Hukkeri

BANGALORE: The post-graduate medical and dental entrance test process has run into rough weather again. This time, the bone of contention is the answer key published in its website by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) for its recent Post-Graduate Common Entrance Test (PGCET).

Candidates say they had spotted not less than 20 mistakes and approached the university. The answer key was modified twice and it still has 17 mistakes. But the university insists that there are only four or five mistakes.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has now entered the scene, seeking the intervention of the Medical Education Minister, V.S. Acharya. The parishad wants the university to refrain from publishing the rankings without correcting the mistakes. To press the matter, ABVP members and the candidates are meeting the Minister on Monday.

Candidates complained that they were given only 24 hours to challenge the answer key. Challenging each answer cost them Rs. 500. "The university made this 24-hour rule without even considering a fact that a candidate in Gulbarga would take 16 hours to reach the city," said a candidate, who preferred anonymity. When contacted, RGUHS Registrar Hukkeri told The Hindu that the answer key had only four or five mistakes and these would be rectified after the return of the Vice-Chancellor to the country from a visit abroad on February 22. The rankings would be published only later, he said.

In the latest modified answer key, the answer to Question 166 in version M5 (The following are the lasers used in Lasik except A. Excimer, B. Argon, C. Diode, D. Krypton) is given as choice A. The candidate said the correct answer should be B, C and D, quoting from reference books Parson's and Khurana. He even had the books' edition number and the page numbers where the answers appeared.

The candidate alleged that the university officials refused to entertain the claim although he had supplied all the proof for the 17 mistakes in the answer key.

ABVP has urged the Government to conduct an inquiry into the matter after constituting an experts committee. It wanted the guilty to be suspended.

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